Entrepreneurship: the skills needed for life in rapidly changing conditions

Entrepreneurship is a set of skills needed for life in rapidly changing conditions in the civic, professional, and personal spheres. It includes, for example, cultivating self-confidence, gaining awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, strengthening the will and courage to take healthy risks, developing ethical principles, or an awareness of responsibility and social compassion.
According to the European Framework of Reference for Key Competences for Lifelong Learning, entrepreneurship competence refers to the capacity to act upon opportunities and ideas, and to transform them into values for others.

Entrepreneurship in a flower

Implement entrepreneurship education into your school in a comprehensive concept.

First area: „Ideas and opportunities"

Show your students how to search for opportunities and create value for them.

Second area: „Resources"

Identify resources within and around yourself.

Third area: „Into action"

Let students realise and take responsibility for their ideas.

The real world is different from the one in school. How to prepare students for it?

Through the entrepreneurial competences that the students will try out in the project!

STUDENTS' PROJECTS

Entrepreneurship education

Entrepreneurship education is a prerequisite for the professional employment of school graduates, their active involvement in society and easier management of personal and family life. It connects education with practical life, removes the boundaries between education, work, and the active citizen. It teaches general skills that can be applied across all disciplines and areas of life (also known as soft skills).
Draft of Standard for Educating and Promoting Entrepreneurship Training

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Development curriculum

Ten commandments of an entreprenuerial principal

(both documents are not translated in full. We are working on it. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact us).

Draft of Standard for Educating and Promoting Entrepreneurship Training

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Materials, methodologies, and examples

What does entrepreneurship bring to students?

increased competitiveness on a dynamic labour market
strengthened self-knowledge, self-confidence, internal motivation, and active self-management
the ability to make decisions and take responsibility for them
support for the application of business ideas in conjunction with teaching
internal motivation for self-employment, self-education, and lifelong learning
prerequisites for easier management of personal and family life
skills such as teamwork, discussion, accepting criticism and other opinions, as well as reaching compromises
internal motivation to actively solve problems
knowledge of the principles of ethical behaviour and their inclusion in the student’s own scale of values and their respect for personal attitudes

What does entrepreneurship bring to the school?

good PR and increased prestige of the school - the entrepreneurship of students is a clear, concrete, and verifiable “product” of the educational institution
authenticity, i.e., a factual connection between education and everyday life
easier implementation of project teaching and interdisciplinary interconnection of educational themes
increased interest of new study applicants
sharing of various activities and experiences between secondary school pupils and primary school pupils, and between the public, parents, high school graduates, and companies in connection with the labour market (seminars, markets, workshops…)
the possible use of financial support for entrepreneurship development and the performance of development projects involving pupils and the community

What does it bring to teachers?

increased motivation and personal creativity
greater courage to innovate in teaching
openness to formative evaluation
confidence in the planning and implementation of project teaching
linking of content subjects with cross-sectional competencies
connection between teaching and reality

What does it bring to the community or society in general?

it establishes strong relationships between the school and the community, companies, employers, and the authorities in the vicinity of the school
prerequisites for the active involvement of school graduates in the life of society
internal motivation of school graduates to be involved in the place where they live, such as involvement in politics, volunteering, environmental issues, leisure, or school activities
reduced socio-economic impacts on education - foreign sources show that entrepreneurship has the greatest benefit for children from disadvantaged backgrounds